Der Schleier als unverhüllte Provokation
Als Reisender im Nahen Osten habe ich gelegentlich die Klagen westlicher Frauen gehört, dass selbst Verschleierung sie nicht vor Zudringlichkeiten schütze. Manche Ägypterinnen, so die “Washington Post”, behaupten sogar, dass eine Verschleierung Belästigung provoziere:
In accord with her interpretation of Islamic law, which says women should dress modestly, Sayed wore a flowing black robe and black veil. Together, they covered all but her hands and her pale face with its drawn-on, expressive eyebrows. Despite her attire, Sayed said, she daily endures suggestive comments from male customers and fellow vendors.
“I think a woman who wears hijab can be more provocative to them,” Sayed said. “The more covered up you are, the more interesting you are to them.”
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Mona Eltahawy, a 41-year-old Egyptian social commentator who now lives, unveiled, in the United States, said that as a Muslim woman who wore hijab for nine years and was harassed “countless times” in Egypt, she has concluded that the increase in veiling has somehow contributed to the increase in harassment.
“The more women veil the less men learn to behave as decent and civilized members of society,” Eltahawy wrote in an interview via Facebook. “And the more women are harassed, the more they veil thinking it will ‘protect’ them.”
Female travelers consider Egypt one of the worst countries in the world for harassment on the streets — second only to Afghanistan, where the Taliban forced all women behind the veil and into seclusion in their homes.
Eine Umfrage des Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights will herausgefunden haben, dass in Ägypten 98% der ausländischen und 83% der einheimischen Frauen Opfer sexueller Belästigung geworden sind. Von den Ägypterinnen gaben 72% an, dass die Belästigung stattgefunden hat, als sie verschleiert waren.
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